Quoting: GuestWhy should (Arch) Linux users stick to Flatpak from Flathub? What are the advantages by using it and not the distribution provided package, if any?
If I am not failing in seeing only disadvantages in this case, could we please stop unconditionally promoting Flathub packages?

The advantage is that it's first-party, fully supported, and contains all the features including service integrations, browser sources, etc. that are often missing from third-party packages. Flathub also makes it possible to install various popular plugins that may or may not be available as system packages.

In this specific case that Flatpak also allows us to patch the dependencies to work around bugs that haven't been fixed in upstream yet, or enable features that aren't available in the specific release it's using.

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Quoting: Pendragonweird that there's no Linux version under Steam o.O ...seems like an obvious inclusion

also re: downloading:
you can also, ya know.. just get it from the Ubuntu repository for those that run it

Shipping Linux versions of an app on Steam isn't super easy since it has to be "portable", meaning that it has to include (most of) its dependencies and be compiled against an older glibc to run on a wide variety of systems.
In OBS' case this is just a lot of work since it has a fuckton of dependencies that need to be compiled essentially from scratch to work in the Steam Linux Runtime or at least on an older LTS distro.

All in all we just didn't have the time yet. There were many other things in the works that should make this easier though.

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Just for clarification: We're not going to discontinue the PPA, and it will continue to be maintained for the foreseeable future. The Flatpak will however serve as our officially supported first-party distribution for all other distros.

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I don't know exactly how Heroic handles Origin titles at the Moment, but as the author of Legendary I can at least give you some answers on the technical side of things.

Quoting: Lofty1. do you have to run a separate client among the Heroic launcher to play games from the EA store ? i.e Heroic downloads the game but then installs the actual client in wine?

Yes. Heroic/Legendary actually don't download the game because Origin games cannot be downloaded from Epic's platform directly. Instead you just link your accounts and activate the game on your EA account. The game is then installed via Origin.

Quoting: Lofty2. How (if any) is DRM handled, is it any different to the way steam does things with EA game is there any extra layer here or does it just depend on the specific game ? do all EA games released use a DRM layer authenticated via the client ?

It's a little different in that you don't actually need to have Heroic/Legendary running. They just need to open a special URL that tells Origin to launch your game and makes it think it was called from the Epic launcher.

Quoting: Lofty3. Can i download or get a key from EA account using Heroic and then add it to steam and it show up in my library as a legit copy ( i don't expect that of course )

No.

Quoting: Lofty4. Can i somehow use the Heroic client to act as a buffer for the EA games that are bought on steam where it claims a 3rd party client is needed ?

No.

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Just as an aside Legendary itself also accumulated over 100k downloads as of last month (GitHub + PyPI, not counting the packages in Fedora, AUR, etc.).

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